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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
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David K Randall
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by David K Randall
keywords: Chinese Americans, immigrant healthcare, disease, California, history
On March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown—but when corrupt politicians mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate. Black Death at the Golden Gate is a spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.
ISBN: 978-0-393-35815-5
Publication: July 2020
Publisher: W.W. Norton
